The founder of the Oculus Rift, which later became the Meta Quest, has made big claims about Apple’s mixed-reality headset.
The hype train for the Apple AR/VR headset is building up steam ahead of its expected announcement at WWDC 2023, with the Oculus co-founder Palmer Luckey seemingly impressed with the mixed-reality wearable.
A recent Twitter post (opens in new tab) from Luckey (below) makes the pithy claim that „The Apple headset is so good“. While the Oculus Rift creator didn’t expand on this early verdict on Apple’s headset, a follow-up comment suggests it is based on some first-hand knowledge of the device.
When asked if his contacts within Apple have „high confidence“ in the product’s launch, Luckey agreed – although he stopped short of revealing if he’d spent any quality time with the AR/VR headset, which is rumored to be called either the Apple Reality One or the Apple Reality Pro.
Naturally, we can’t draw any big conclusions from such a brief, off-the-cuff remark, even if it does come from VR’s biggest pioneer. But the comments do chime with some previous thoughts on VR headsets from Palmer Luckey, who we branded as one of the great tech innovators of the 2010s.
